Rubio calls for global crackdown on far-left extremism

Rubio calls for global crackdown on far-left extremism. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has urged countries to collaborate against what he called a growing threat of left-wing terrorism. The Trump administration hosted representatives from more than 60 countries in Washington, where it argued left-wing political violence was the result of a "unique evil rooted in a deep resentment towards civilisation". Officials made no mention of countering far-right threats, and Democrats said Rubio's focus on left-wing groups was "politically partisan". At Thursday's session in Washington DC, Rubio called for a global effort to share intelligence to counter the "transnational" issue of far-left extremism. The Trump administration has already designated Antifa - short for anti-fascist - as a domestic terrorist group. At the session, White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller characterised leftists as "fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy". Also on Thursday, the state department announced visa restrictions targeting members of what it labels as "Far-Left Terrorist and other aligned groups", including those that have allegedly participated in "economic sabotage". Research presents a mixed picture of far-left and far-right extremism in the US. A 2025 report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank, found that left-wing terrorism had surpassed that from the far right for the first time in more than 30 years, although it also said incidents from both sides were relatively low. However, the US justice department last year quietly removed from its website a 2024 internal study indicating that far-right extremists were responsible for the bulk of ideologically motivated deaths.